Facilitating Meetings:A Guide for Community Planning Groups

Productive community planning group (CPG) meetings play a critical role in developing any program design. Given a group’s diversity of culture and professional and personal experiences, facilitating CPG meetings can be both challenging and rewarding.
This guide, Facilitating Meeting: A Guide for Community Planning Group (CPG), is intended to assist Community Planning Group co-chairs, committee chairs, members and external facilitators in preparing for and facilitating CPG meetings
The guide provides tools that will be valuable to both new and experienced facilitators. Topics covered in the guide include:
• An Overview of the facilitation skills useful for CPG meetings
• Specific tools for all parts of a CPG meeting
• guidelines for dealing with challenging situations
• checklists for pre-meeting tasks and facilitators assessment
• additional resources about group facilitation